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fuscus : gula flava : abdomen cnpreo-seneum ; segmentum 1""^. 

 flavum, basi viride : oviductus corporepaullo brevior : pedes flavi ; 

 meso- et metatarsis traminei, apice fusci : alie limpidte ; nervi flavi ; 

 stigma concolor, minimum. fCorp. long. lin. 1 — Ij ; alar. lin. 



n-m- 



Far. 13. — Mesothorax viridis. 



Far. y. — Metapedum femora et tibiae fulva. 



Found by Mr. Haliday, on Amjelica sylvesiris, at Holy- 

 wood, in Ireland. 



Art. II. — Wanderings and Ponderings of an Insect-Hunter. 



SERIES THE SECOND, 



Chapter I. 



[The Insect-Hunter speaketh of Darenth and Greenhithe.] 



When I awoke the sun was high in the heaven. My com- 

 panion of yesterday was gone ; he had been out for hours. I had 

 never before been on the spot ; I knew nothing of the ground ; 

 however, I marched up the lane, and entered the wood. In 

 this lane, be it recorded, I took Drilus flavescens and heptura 

 6-guttata, besides a great number of Criorhina oxycanthce, 

 which till now I had never seen, and I well recollect how 

 much I was struck by their velvety backs and beautiful 

 appearance. Almost immediately on entering the wood there 

 is a high sandy bank to the left ; when I now first saw this 

 bank, the beams of a cloudless sun fell full upon it, and 

 the bees were at work mining it in all directions. I soon 

 scrambled up nearly to the top. The black AnthopJiora 

 was throwing the loose sand behind her from an exquisitely 

 round hole, which she was digging with all her energies, 

 whilst her white-nosed partner was pendulizing over and 

 about her like a sentinel on guard. The sand-wasps were 

 flitting about and entering their burrows, and the gorgeous 



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